March is a good month for Northen Lights chasing in Iceland. This images was shot on March 15th 2012 at Þingvellir National Park. The rift Flosagjá is filled with cristal clear water from the Lake.

In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora borealis (or the northern lights), named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas, by Pierre Gassendi in 1621. Auroras seen near the magnetic pole may be high overhead, but from farther away, they illuminate the northern horizon as a greenish glow or sometimes a faint red, as if the Sun were rising from an unusual direction. Discrete aurorae often display magnetic field lines or curtain-like structures, and can change within seconds or glow unchanging for hours, most often in fluorescent green.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(astronomy))

Syðra Fjallabak or route F210 is a beautiful mountain road which offers countless opportunities for landscape photography. Travel this road in the amazing summer night and you are hooked. You just want to keep coming to the interior again and again. Here we are looking Southeast towards Lake Álftavatn, the Ridge Brattháls, Mount Stórasúla and Mýrdalsjökull Glacier are in background.

It was perhaps not the best thing for my equipment, for me to venture into the ashfall from Volcano Eyjafjallajökull, but the mood and the dimmed daylight was just out of this world. This image is shot 8th of May 2010 and I was directly under the ash-cloud that was blowing eastwards. These sands are usually pitch black as most beaches are in Iceland.

Laugarvatn is a lake and the name of a small town in the South Iceland. The lake contains some geothermal springs under the water surface, making it a popular swimming spot with some warm patches along the shoreline year-round. Fontana are new thermal baths (opened summer 2011) built on this tradition. This beautiful pink rainbow appeared from nowhere one August evening when we had just finished a lovely dinner at Lindin Restaurant.

This image from Hellisheiði, just some 30km east of Reykjavik was shot on the 17th of January 2010 at 14.57 – sunset that day was at 16.25. A few kilometers north of this place lies the Hellisheiði Power Station which is the second largest geothermal power station in the world, and the largest in Iceland. So Iceland is hot even when it’s cold.

Þingvallavatn is a lake in south-western Iceland. With a surface of 84 km² it is the largest natural lake in Iceland. Its greatest depth is at 114 m. At the northern shore of the lake, at Þingvellir (after which the lake is named), the Alþingi, the national parliament, was founded in the year 930. The lake is part of the Þingvellir National Park. The volcanic origin of the islands in the lake is clearly visible. The cracks and faults around it, of which the famous Almannagjá canyon is the largest, is where the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates meet. Silfra fissure is a popular SCUBA and snorkeling site.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thingvallavatn)

Hraunsvík shore is located east of the small fishing village of Grindavík at the Reykjanes Peninsula. The black beach was once a popular spot for soldiers and their faimlies from the nearby Nato base at Keflavík. The base was closed on 8th of September 2006 and it’s facilities taken over by the Icelandic Defence Agency. There is rich birdlife in Hraunsvík and this is only place you could spot a Puffin at the Peninsula. The Puffin nests in the grassy hills of mount Festarfjall which you seen in background.

Fnjóskadalur is an agricultural valley in Northeast Iceland, approx. 10 km northeast of Akureyri. Fnjóská, a popular salmon angling river and the longest spring fed river in Iceland, runs through the valley. The river originates on Sprengisandur in the Icelandic highland plateau.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnjóskadalur)

Kerlingarfjöll (1,477 m (4,846 ft)) is a mountain range in Iceland situated in the Highlands of Iceland near the Kjölur highland road. The volcanic origin of these mountains is evidenced by the numerous hot springs and rivulets in the area. And indeed, they are part of a large volcano system of 100 km² (38.6 square mile). The volcanoes of the range are tuyas. The earth is shimmering red in this area because of the volcanic rhyolite stone the mountains are composed of. Minerals that have emerged from the hot springs also color the ground yellow, red and green. The area was formerly known for its summer ski resort, but this was dismantled in 2000.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerlingarfjöll)

In Iceland most beaches are black sand beaches. There are exceptions such as the white beaches in Arnarfjörður in the West fiords. Arnarfjörður is believed to be the home for many sea monsters and strange creatures. There is even a Monster Collection Museum in the beautiful little town of Bíldudalur.